[s-cars] speed vs. weight, 10 kilos and 0.4 seconds & Mahoney JNR ersatz M3 CSL

[Joe Pizzimenti]

Not much steel left except for the intricate cage that he did.

As for why he's doing it, why not?  It hasn't been done before & he
has made the requisite aero mods as well to make it move across the
salt.  It's an insane piece of engineering.  Dry sump, liquid to air
intercooler, really trick high rpm shortblock, basically every old
racing trick in the book.  It's a Mitsubishi oin name only at this
point.

Deride it all you want.  Fact of the matter is, it takes huge cojones
to drive anything 200mph, much less building a car basically from
scratch for it.  It takes significantly less cojones to make cute
little analogies from behind a keyboard.





On 5/15/09, Ian Duff <iduff at comcast.net> wrote:
> If he used even moderately modern adhesive to glue the new cf panels
> to the remaining structure, I would think the new structure would be
> stronger than before.
>
> Yep, he lobotomized the old steel unibody, leaving potentially a new
> Gumby structure. However, sounds like the steel got replaced with cf.
> So, instead of lobotomizing it, he pulled a $6 million dollar man on it.
>
> Why is still up in the air, as the evo is about as aerodynamically
> slick as a locomotive, not terribly conducive to speed records. Lotsa
> downforce makes for great rally performance, but not so great
> Bonneville runs. Kinda like the dude who puts a $2500 stereo in a $500
> beater, or the convenience store who uses $20K worth of video
> surveillance gear to ensure $20 worth of junk food remains on the
> shelves.
>
> -Ian Duff.
>
> On 15 May, 2009, at 20:46, Taka Mizutani wrote:
>
>> I hope that Evo is basically a tube frame silhouette car- your buddy
>> took
>> out damn near everything in the uni body. Or are you just talking
>> about the
>> outer skins? Even so...... that's scary.
>>
>> Better not crash that thing.
>>
>> Taka
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> wow, that's spec miata weight.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>
>>> To: Michael Lardizabal <mikellardizabal at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: wmahoney at disk.com; mlped at q.com; s-car-list at audifans.com;
>>> pkrasusky at ups.com
>>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:35:27 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] speed vs. weight, 10 kilos and 0.4 seconds &
>>> Mahoney
>>> JNR  ersatz M3 CSL
>>>
>>> I just took a ride the other day in a friend's Evo that has carbon
>>> doors,
>>> roof, fenders & every light weight thing you can do down to a fuel
>>> cell &
>>> the final dry weight with cage is 2217 pounds.  From about 3300 or
>>> so.
>>>
>>> He plans to hit Bonneville in August to set some sort of stupid
>>> record with
>>> the damned thing.  I'll keep youse guys in the loop.  It should
>>> either be
>>> fast or spectacular or both.
>>>
>>> Pizzo
>>>
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